Sunday, June 28, 2015

Firmware-related blogs

This short post describes some firmware-related blogs, including this one. Does talking about one's own blog make this a meta-blog posting, or given the pain in getting through this read along w/ the subject matter of firmware make it a 'flog' (firmware + blog)? Just kidding.

So to begin, I started this blog in 2009 to discuss recent events in UEFI and PI. One of my favorite UEFI-related sites on blogger is Tim Lewis' http://uefi.blogspot.com. I've worked with Tim for over a decade and he is one of the most talent software engineers and architects in the field. When I bumped into Tim at the Open Compute Project conference in San Jose, I asked why he hasn't blogged since October of last year. His reply was 'When I get deep into a programming project, I forget to blog', or something like that. As such, as always, expect to see good things from Tim in the future.

On the Intel front, you'll see that fellow Intel colleague & blogger Brian Richardson from the above blogging site also has an evangelist blog at https://blogs.intel.com/evangelists/author/brichar2/ When last in the Seattle area Brian stopped by my house; I don't know if he appreciated the story I related later wherein my teen-age daughter asked me "why was Kurt Cobain visiting you, Dad?"

Another site that I follow is relatively new. Its author harkens from the Pacific Northwest and I met him at the Black Lodge back in 2013 https://twitter.com/vincentzimmer/status/381940011974656000/photo/1. His site is http://firmwaresecurity.com/ and as the masthead notes, it is "a blog focused on hardware/firmware security news/info for BIOS, UEFI, and Coreboot, on Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Chrome, and other OSes." Although the site also treats OS's, it has a rich feed of stories on firmware.

Although not a blog, I have followed Jack Ganssle's e-newletter http://www.ganssle.com/tem-subunsub.html on embedded for years. And although the subject matter is more trusted computing than firmware, I like the community postings of Chris Maher on http://www.linkedin.com since there are often cross-overs of firmware and trusted computing in his citations.

I hope that these locations help in your hunt of interesting reads regarding firmware on the internet. If you have a favorite site that I missed, please send me a mail or comment on this blog. Remember on the internet that 'sharing is caring.'